Today Pulsegleaner is a day older! ;)

[aftermidnight]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Annette

 

[thistlebloom]

Happy Happy Birthday Pulsegleaner! Are you spending it in the city ferreting out exotic pulses?

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Happy Birthday would enjoy meeting and buy you a birthday drink.

I don't drink, remember (I'm MAKING Morat, I'm not planning to consume it!)

Happy Happy Birthday Pulsegleaner! Are you spending it in the city ferreting out exotic pulses?

Yeah, just got back, though pickings were slim. By now nearly all supplies of last years material is exhausted, and this year (and presumably all years hereafter) HAS no usable variant seed. I saw this years version of the brand I am currently working with, and it is devoid of any apparent contents (lucky for me, they have also changed the color of the bag, so it will be easy to tell this year's bags from last year's) And the bin was pretty scanty too. I think they are refilling it with bags of a new type (along with maybe one bag of the old) so as time progresses the amount of usable material there will be diluted more and more until it is no longer worth the effort. I think that, after this year, I'm going to have to rely ONLY on my own yield, no more supplements.

I suppose that, starting next week, I'll have to start going for the Sailing Boat brand. It's crappy for alternate color rice beans, but at least it still has some weeds to work with. When that is exhausted, I'll be down the the Roxy Pink horse which has a few whites a few blacks a few blues some bindweed seeds (not the useful kind) the odd black cow pea and that's about it.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Update

This evening my parents surprised me with an unexpected "impulse" gift; a mead making kit. Now I actually have the equipment to do things things I couldn't do properly before, like racking correctly (no more running the stuff through paper towels to get as much sediment as I could.)

 

[Nyboy]

Nice gift, remember "drinks does not have to have alcohol, coffee is a drink" Have you ever made wine?

 

[Pulsegleaner]

No, nor do I intend to. Because I am not as yet skilled in this process I avoid trying with high pectin fruits like grapes and apples, as those are the ones which can result in methanol production if you do it wrong (i.e. the stuff that will poison or blind you if you drink enough of it) Mulberries have very little pectin, and honey; none at all.

In any case, I'm not planning on making a habit of this (since I don't drink alcohol, there seems little or no point) so most of what I DO make is to use up things I otherwise would have to throw away (the mulberries in the morat proved mostly too unsweet to be good to eat, and the honey was one I found to strong to be pleasant (which oddly makes it perfect for mead; sort of like how apples for hard cider tend to taste like crap if you ate one raw.)

But you do remind me of something funny that happened right after I turned 21 I was out at dinner with my parents, and since I was now old enough (and looked it) the waiter asked me if I wanted him to pour me a glass of wine when he was pouring it for my parents (actually this was probably LONG AFTER I was 21, since my sister was getting a glass, and she's 5 years younger than me) Rather than say a straight no, I put on my best Dracula voice and said "I never drink.....wine."

 

[ninnymary]

Pulse, if you have friends that like wine or anything else that you don't consume, you could always gift it to them. I'm sure they would love it.

Mary

 

[Pulsegleaner]

That's WHY I'm doing it, it's all going to cousins of mine.